Guzmania melinonis Regel

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guzmania melinonis Regel

  • Type

    Type. Linden in Petrograd Hortus s n (? holotype LE, not seen), without any locality; Melinon 37 (? clonotype P), French Guiana.

  • Synonyms

    Guzmania quitense Oeser

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering 20-23 cm high. Leaves numerous, 3-5 dm long; sheaths broadly elliptic, pale-appressed-lepidote; blades ligulate, broadly acute or obtuse and apiculate, 2-4 cm wide, soon glabrous. Scape straight, glabrous; scape-bracts imbricate, strict, broadly ovate, acute, red. Inflorescence simple, ellipsoid or subcylindric, 5-10 cm long, fertile throughout. Floral bracts about 4-ranked, broadly ovate, nearly equaling the flowers, sparsely and obscurely lepidote, nerved, bright red; flowers subsessile, to 33 mm long. Sepals broadly elliptic, obtuse, 15 mm long, short-connate, Firm, even, glabrous; petals obtuse, yellow or white. Capsule slenderly ellipsoid, beaked, to 27 mm long; coma white.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in forest, 300-3000 m alt, Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Bolivia, Amazonian Brazil.

    Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Putumayo Colombia South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America| Ecuador South America| Manabí Ecuador South America| Carchi Ecuador South America| Imbabura Ecuador South America| Pichincha Ecuador South America| Bolívar Ecuador South America| Napo Ecuador South America| Zamora Ecuador South America| Bolivia South America| La Paz Bolivia South America| Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|